“…Migration, being "a key mobile phenomenon of our time," is a "product of infrastructures too" (Lin et al 2017, p. 168). As spelled out by Graham and Marvin (2001), the language of infrastructure thus emphasizes the logic of selective "channels," which privilege access for some and construct barriers for others (van Heur 2017). This sorting or channeling is a function of what authors have called border externalization (De Genova, Mezzadra, and Pickles 2014: 19) and processes of border internalization (Lugo 2000), variably understood in terms of the multiplication (Mezzadra and Neilson 2012, p. 65) or the thickening of borders (Mutsaers 2014), effecting differential inclusion (De Genova, Mezzadra, and Pickles 2014, p. 25).…”